After a long weekend celebrating our Independence from that fat jerk the king of England, we were back in the GLOOM at CHOP- Chappie’s House of Pain. I was scheduled to Q next Saturday but I’m taking the kids to the Poconos so I pulled the switcheroo with Vanilla and Cabana.
The F3 Warmup: Done by Cabana:
- 20 Side Straddle Hops
- 20 Moroccan Night Club
- 20 Cherry Pickers
- 20 Mountain man Poopers
- 20 Merkins, Palms facing in
Looney Tunes on Q
Mosey around the premises.
Each HIM Grabs a Coupon from the stack, That stack sure is getting a lot of love lately.
The Thang:
Same thing with different Styles,
Round 1: Traditional Style
- Derkins (Merkins with Feet on your Coupon): 20
- Coupon Curls: 20
- Squats Holding the Coupon: 20
- Big Boys 20
- Run Across CHOP – Fireplex ran with his Coupon- starting a trend that every HIM kept going.
- Nur Back
- 10 Count Recovery
Round 2: Quatro Style
Gloves OFF
- Derkins (Merkins with Feet on your Coupon): 20
- Coupon Curls: 20
- Squats Holding the Coupon: 20
- Big Boys 20
- Run Across CHOP with Coupon
- Nur Back
- 10 Count Recovery
Round 3: Drago Style
Every exercise is done at a much slower pace, creating more burn.
- Derkins (Merkins with Feet on your Coupon): 20
- Coupon Curls: 20
- Squats Holding the Coupon: 20
- Big Boys 20
- Crab Crawl!
- Nur Back
- 10 Count Recovery
Round 4: Cabana Style
Every exercise is done 50% more than required. Instead of 20, you do 30. Cabana of course, did 40 since 40 is 50% more than the now required 30
- Derkins (Merkins with Feet on your Coupon): 20
- Coupon Curls: 20
- Squats Holding the Coupon: 20
- Big Boys 20
- Run Across CHOP with Coupon
- Nur Back
- 10 Count Recovery
3rd F.
From the F3 classic Freed to Lead
For organizations to change in this way a dice cultural shift would be necessary. Men have grown discharging their service obligations via a well-worn boy to them, like Cub Scouts being led through a craft or
This problem, of men passively waiting to be told what to be done rather than actively doing it themselves, has been creeping up on us for a long time. More than thirty yes (1980), George W.S. Trow wrote in The New Yorker that “in important role of a father is to give a son a sense of permission -a sense of what might be done. This still works, but since no adult is supported by the voice of the culture (which is now a childish voice), it does not work well. As a result, Trow wrote, “(i)n the absence of adults, people came to put their trust in experts.”
He sums it up pretty well. The absence of male community leadership has progressively infantilized us, sapping our will toward independence and self-reliance. When we compare sense of what might be done to our culture’s Trow’s sense of what might be done” to our culture’s command to do “what ought to be done”, we can clearly see how far into childish expert-dependence we have descended. Maybe this is why our pastors and other community leaders foist opportunities upon us. Otherwise, nothing would ever get done. Arresting this cultural devolution will require action as bold as the initiative it took to reverse the flow of the Chicago River, but we are confident that it can be done. We have seen it work in F3. Healthy men, brought together in Fellowship and finding themselves driven to serve, are more than able to do so dynamically if given the “sense of permission” cited as lacking by Trow. This, we believe, is how men are wired.
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